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dahl Name Meaning and History

Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, North German, and Jewish (Ashkenazic): from any of the medieval and modern forms of Germanic dala-, Old Norse dalr, ‘valley’. Throughout Norway and elsewhere in Scandinavia this is a common farm name. In some cases it is a habitational name from places in Germany named Dahl or Dahle, from the same word. As a Jewish family name this is a habitational name or an ornamental adoption.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The dahl name in History

A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the dahl family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of dahl Families in the US in 1920
Number of dahl families
 393-783
 132-392		 1-131
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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